Grateful Dead Performs ‘Not Fade Away’ In 1990: Pro-Shot Video

The Grateful Dead shared pro-shot video of “Not Fade Away” as this week’s installment in their All The Years Live video series. The footage comes from the band’s July 10, 1990 concert at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The 1957 Buddy Holly & The Crickets classic appeared in the Grateful Dead’s repertoire as early as 1968, as per The Setlist Program. “Not Fade Away” would pretty much remain a staple cover for the rest of GD’s tenure.

In the early 1980s, “NFA” became linked with “Throwing Stones,” although not always, as Dead archivist David Lemieux attests to in his notes accompanying the version from Raleigh in ‘90. Read his words below:

Usually attached to “Throwing Stones” from 1983 onward, “Not Fade” was played a set closer once “Throwing Stones” became its partner. Sometimes, though, “Not Fade Away” would simply appear out of the post-Drums ballad as the closer on its own, and it always went a little deeper when the Grateful Dead did it this way.

Watch the Grateful Dead perform “Not Fade Away” from Raleigh in 1990 below: